Greetings Ecologers - About a week ago I send a request to the list-serve asking for advice regarding pop-science book for my non-major's biology class this fall. I would like to thank all the responders whose advise allowed me to put together an impressive list!! So here is that list:
• “Cadillac Desert” by Mark Reisner • “The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man” by Michael Tennessen • “Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth” by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans • “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert • “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed” by Jarrod Diamond • “Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective” by Richard Borden • “Superbug: the Fatal Menace of MRSA” By Maryn McKenna • “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond • “Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900” By Alfred Cosby • “Your Inner Fish” By Neil Shubin • “Home Place: Essays in Ecology” by Stan Rowe • “Earth Alive! Essays in Ecology” by Stan Rowe • “Hot, Flat and Crowded” by Thomas Freedman • “Ishmael: An Adventure in Mind and Spirit” by Daniel Quinn • “The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us” by Diane Ackerman • “Protecting Life on Earth” by Peter Moyle • “Rambunctious Garden” by Emma Marris • “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert • “On the Origin of Teepees: The Evolution of Ideas” by Jonnie Hughes • “Evolution for Everyone” by David Sloan Wilson • “The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time” by David Sloan Wilson • “Suburban Safari” by Hannah Holmes • “Coyote at the Kitchen Door” by Stephen Destefano • “City Wilds” edited by Terrell Dixon • “My Backyard Jungle” by James Barilla • “The Urban Bestiary” by Lyanda Haupt • “Win-Win Ecology” by Michael Rosenzweig • “City and Suburban Survival” by Tom Brown • “Sacred Ecology" by Friket Berkes • “Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience” by Berkes and Folke • “Navagating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change” by Berkes, Colding and Folke • “The Commons in the New Millenium: Challenges and Adaptations” by Dolsak and Ostrom • “Weather, Climate and Culture” by Strauss and Orlove • “Plan B 4.0” by Lester Brown • “Environmental Social Science: Human-Environment Interactions and Sustainability” by Emilio Moran • “Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development” By Gerald Martin • “State of the World” by the Worldwatch Institute • “Cradle to Cradle: Rethinking the way we make things” by Michael Braungart and William McDonough • “Sustaining Sustainability: Creating a Systems Science in a Fragemented Academy and Polarized World” by Sterman • “Sand County Almanac” by Leopold • Anything by Ed Abbey I'm familiar with some of these.... but most of them I haven't actually read. Now the work for me starts in narrowing things down! Thanks again! David David R. Johnson, PhD Department of Biology St. Edwards University [email protected]
